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I'm sure there was no ulterior motive there. :rolleyes:

No, I said that 'gay' is something one does, not something that one is. You do the ghey, you cannot 'be' the ghey.

There is more to telos and substance than playacting social roles. It takes more than anti-liturgically aping the nature of woman to be woman.

This is correct. Gay is something you do, not something you are. In Aristotelian terms, error has no subsistence of its own, only accident, because existence is a good.

The real answer is: 'when it is politically convenient for Progress!'

By definition a 'society' is a community of persons ordered to achieve some common end. By that alone a society without preference is impossible. But that's the entire thrust of 'liberalism' as such, the acidic dissolution of 'society' as such into a mass of 'individuals'.

This where things get a little tricky, because the Chinese are not themselves Modernist Monetarists, therefore they don't identify 'money' itself as 'wealth', reserving that designation for productive capital, tools that make more tools, fields growing rice, roads, buildings, that sort of thing...

'Our' Elites have visions of dollar signs in their eyes, which makes them easy for Chinese Elites to play, as Chinese Elites are actually Chinese in a way that 'American' Elites stopped being a long time ago. China is walking a path between not quite agreeing to next host the money-parasites...

Both parties do what the banksters tell them to do, it's that simple.

Because consistency is hard. Because living without hypocrisy is harder. Because the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and I may as well enjoy the decline. Because I make my living from the bloody things. Because instincts only take you so far. Because I know tobacco and alcohol are...

I am reminded of the advice of an old sorcerer to the reader of his book on the subject of the summoning of demons. Don't.

Let's not get started down the transhumanist rabbit hole please, at least, not in this thread. Even hypothetical substantial and essential sex change opens up enough philosophical and moral cans of worms that it is more than enough. I for one pray we are never forced to return to the well of...

Accident, (noun) in philosophy, an accident, or 'accidental property' is an attribute that may or may not belong to a subject, without affecting its essence. It does not mean an "accident" as used in common speech, i.e. a chance incident, normally harmful. Aristotle made a distinction between...

I can't believe we are actually having this conversation, and I know I will be ignored, but here ya go. All people are born Male or Female or defective Male or defective Female. Defects can be corrected, but biological Sex cannot currently be changed, it is essential to each person. Unless...

Let there be a new Holy League in these latter days. Lord, Have Mercy!

Don't tell me, tell the Nine Lords in Black. Discrimination means that things are not actually equal and somethings are good and some things are bad. Therefore Discrimination is evil because Equality is good.

Big Grin. Glances down at signature block, ayup. "What's the difference between the Jesuits and the Dominicans?" "Well the Jesuits were founded to fight the Protestants and the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians." "Who are the Albigensians?" "That's the difference." We can be friends...

I for one welcome our new Han overlords and pray that they have no patience for this madness.

Precisely. Thus I have no need to submit my conscience to the magisterium of the Nine.

All of which I grant, but it is the logic of the Nine Lords in Black that because Identity is arbitrary, muh Freedumb requires the State to hold absolute neutrality in regards to any and every identity whatsoever. Why this logic would exclude any Trans (or Poly, or Pedo, or whatever) identity...